{"id":2758,"date":"2011-03-10T12:58:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T12:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2758"},"modified":"2011-03-10T12:58:48","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T12:58:48","slug":"the_energy_picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2758","title":{"rendered":"The Energy Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/hope-and-change-gas-prices-have-gone-67-percent-obama-became-president_553930.html\">Weekly Standard Blog<\/a>&nbsp;posted the chart below showing gas prices during the first 26 months of the Obama and Bush administrations.&nbsp; Obviously, there are worldwide forces at work here, but there are also items that our government does control.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 496px; HEIGHT: 535px\" class=\"image image-preview \" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/sites\/all\/files\/images\/Screen%20shot%202011-03-09%20at%205.10.30%20PM_0.preview.png\" width=\"433\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some of the areas in which the government has impacted energy prices are pointed out in the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;This is the President whose administration <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/blogs\/beltway-confidential\/interior-dept-documents-detail-obama-admin-plotting-seize-western-lands-wi\"><em>secretly urged him to bypass needed Congressional approva<\/em><\/a><em>l to create as many at 17 national monuments throughout the west, effectively closing off all that land to energy exploration forever.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;This is the President who has illegally tried to <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704900004576152521093786528.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\"><em>illegally enforce an offshore drilling ban<\/em><\/a><em>.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Actions have consequences.&nbsp; The Obama Administration is not an administration that is willing to develop America&#8217;s carbon energy resources.&nbsp; Because of that policy, Americans will continue to pay more for their energy needs.&nbsp; The technology&nbsp;of green energy is not sufficiently developed to replace carbon energy in a way that is either revenue neutral or cost effective.&nbsp; Until that happens (or we have a new President), we can expect to pay more for all or our energy needs and to increase our energy dependence on countries that dislike us intensely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s Weekly Standard Blog&nbsp;posted the chart below showing gas prices during the first 26 months of the Obama and Bush administrations.&nbsp; Obviously, there are worldwide forces at work here, but there are also items that our government does control. &nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2758\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}